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The developers have primarily been focused on completion of the XML Schema 1.1 processor and Schema Component Designators (SCD) support, with significant work done over the last month in integrating support for xs:override and the new complex type restriction rules, as well as making many bug fixes. The SCD and xs:override implementations were developed by our students during GSoC and will be featured as part of our upcoming Xerces-J 2.11.0 release which is currently planned for the end of November. Two of the three GSoC students from this summer are still contributing to the project. One has shown an interest in eventually becoming a committer which is very encouraging.
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